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ESMA Updates Its Benchmarks Register Under the Benchmarks Regulation

ByRegulatory News

September 07, 2018

ESMA has moved its register for benchmark administrators and third-country benchmarks to the ESMA registers database. In accordance with Article 36 of the Benchmarks Regulation, ESMA started publishing the list of benchmark administrators and third-country benchmarks on January 03, 2018 (the first working day of ESMA in 2018).

So far, ESMA has published the latest register information on its website daily (ESMA working days) and has made it available for download in csv format. ESMA Registers portal provides web visitors with information on the European regulatory framework for investment firms and credit institutions. As for all ESMA registers, the portal offers machine-to-machine services to large-scale organizations, including a set of web services for retrieval of data maintained in ESMA Registers repositories.

FHFA published, in Federal Register, the final rule to adopt, as its own, portions of the regulations of the Federal Housing Finance Board pertaining to the capital requirements for the Federal Home Loan Banks.

The framework provides independent valuers and the general public with an indication of the expectations of SRB on the principles and methodologies for valuation reports, as set out in the legal framework.

US Agencies (FDIC, FED, and OCC) adopted the final rule to address changes to credit loss accounting under the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; this includes banking organizations’ implementation of the current expected credit losses (CECL) methodology.